Boneheaded question regarding compilation...

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Monday, 1 April 2024 at 21:23:50 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>
> Huge fan of Mike Shah's YouTube videos regarding D and his 
> latest for D conference:
>
> https://mshah.io/conf/24/DConf%20%20Online%202024%20_%20The%20Case%20for%20Graphics%20Programming%20in%20Dlang.pdf
>
> So I installed github desktop app and cloned his Talks repo. 
> There is a build command commented out at the top of the main.d 
> file which I've been trying to compile, via the command line:
>
> C:\Users\kheas\Documents\Talks\2024\dconf_online\hello_triangle>dmd -g -J. main.d ./glad/gl/*.d -L-L/usr/local/lib -L-lglfw3 -of=prog && ./prog
> Error: cannot find input file `.\glad\gl\*.d`
> import path[0] = C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin64\..\..\src\phobos
> import path[1] = 
> C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin64\..\..\src\druntime\import
>
> I'm using a Windows 11 machine so I thought that maybe the 
> syntax was for Linux environment. But replacing all the '/' 
> with '\\' did not work.

Those are indeed Linux parameters and not windows compatible. 
This can’t be fixed by switching slash styles.

You need the appropriate libs and the appropriate linker switches.

-Steve